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On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Martin Baxter <martinbaxt...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > "Minority Report"! That was the movie I was thinking of. > > > On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 2:59 AM, Mr. Worf <hellomahog...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> I remember reading about the first AI using neural networks back in the >> late 80s/ early 90s that had software that predicted stock market movements. >> They made a ton of money off of the early predictions but lost a bundle >> later on. I think it was a company that developed out of a MIT research lab. >> >> "Temporal Analytics" sounds like the movie Imposter or Minority Report. Or >> some other mystery movie set in the future. >> >> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 3:39 AM, Martin Baxter <martinbaxt...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> I almost said "Paycheck", but that's not it. But you are right. 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Using this information the company >>>> says it is able to find the relationships between people, organizations, >>>> actions and incidents, not only in the past and present, but also in the >>>> future. >>>> <http://www.gizmag.com/recorded-future-uses-the-internet-to-predict-the-future/15921/picture/118824/> >>>> Google with a difference >>>> >>>> In a white >>>> paper<http://blog.recordedfuture.com/2010/03/13/recorded-future-%E2%80%93-a-white-paper-on-temporal-analytics/>describing >>>> the underlying philosophy and overall system architecture of >>>> Recorded Future the company says that a comparison with traditional search >>>> engines is inevitable, but that search is only one aspect of its temporal >>>> analytics engine. >>>> >>>> Unlike the PageRank algorithm that is at the heart of Google’s search >>>> engine that uses explicit link analysis by analyzing links between pages >>>> and >>>> ranking pages based on the number of links pointing to it as well as the >>>> rank of the pages pointing to it, Recorded Future adds implicit link >>>> analysis to its system. It does this by separating the documents and their >>>> content from what they talk about – the “canonical” entities and events – >>>> so >>>> it is able to look at the “invisible links” between documents that talk >>>> about the same, or related, entities and events. >>>> >>>> A ranking measure called *momentum* – based on the number of documents >>>> referring to these canonical entities and events while taking into account >>>> the credibility of the documents (or document sources) along with several >>>> other factors – is the company’s aggregate judgment of how interesting or >>>> important an entity or event is at a certain point in time. This momentum >>>> measure will change over time. >>>> Predicting the future >>>> >>>> So how is this type of analysis supposed to predict the future? In >>>> addition to extracting event and entity references, Recorded Future also >>>> analyzes the “time and space dimension” of documents – references to when >>>> and where an event has taken place, or even when and where it will take >>>> place – since many documents actually refer to events expected to take >>>> place >>>> in the future. A company’s plans to open a production plant in a particular >>>> country in the next two years, for example. >>>> >>>> This time and space analysis by aggregating weighted opinions about the >>>> likely timing of future events is the first way in which Recorded Future >>>> says it makes predictions about the future. Additionally, the company says >>>> it can also use statistical models to predict future happenings based on >>>> historical records of chains of events of similar kinds. >>>> <http://www.gizmag.com/recorded-future-uses-the-internet-to-predict-the-future/15921/picture/118821/> >>>> >>>> It is this combination of automatic event, entity, time and location >>>> extraction, implicit link analysis, and statistical prediction models that >>>> forms the basis for Recorded Future’s temporal analytics engine. >>>> >>>> The company is also adding more components such as sentiment analyses, >>>> which determine an author’s attitude towards his/her topic, and how strong >>>> that attitude is. >>>> Big things predicted >>>> >>>> Recorded Future has attracted funding from Google’s investment arm, >>>> Google Ventures, as well as In-Q-Tel, a not-for-profit venture capital firm >>>> that invests in high-tech companies on behalf of the CIA. Although the >>>> exact >>>> amounts haven’t been disclosed, both were apparently under US$10 million >>>> each. >>>> >>>> With businesses always looking at ways to gather more information to >>>> make better-informed decisions and, more importantly, willing to pay for >>>> it, >>>> it’s likely investors will see a handsome return on their investment. >>>> Individuals hoping to use Recorded Future to predict next week’s lotto >>>> numbers probably won’t be as lucky. >>>> >>>> Anyone curious can sign up at Recorded >>>> Futures<https://www.recordedfuture.com/index.html>to receive free “broad” >>>> email alerts on events in the future, (which >>>> Recorded Future calls “futures”), while a premium subscription costing >>>> US$149 provides more detailed temporal analyses including highly specific >>>> alerts on events in the future, present or past and dynamic timeline >>>> visualizations. >>>> >>>> Via Wired<http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/07/exclusive-google-cia/> >>>> Gallery Images >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! >>>> Mahogany at: >>>> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody >>> hell wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant >>> >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! >> Mahogany at: >> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ >> > > > > -- > "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell > wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik > > > > -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
